Layoffs

CNN President and CEO Jeff Zucker, who was told a few months ago he would have to do “less with less,” now knows how many fewer employees he will soon have under his command. The network’s parent company, Turner Broadcasting, announced that they would be laying off 1,475 people, with 300 of those coming from CNN Worldwide.
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It appears that CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker’s ambitious plans to remake the network are about to come to a screeching halt with his announcement that layoffs are looming in the near future.
According to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Turner Broadcasting CEO John Martin sent a memo to the employees suggesting that layoffs...

Al Jazeera America, which will be celebrating its first anniversary next week, is considering another round of layoffs, as the network’s ratings continue to sag.
According to TV Newser, Al Jazeera America CEO Ehab Al Shihabi told the staff during a meeting last week that there may be further layoffs.
A network spokesman told TV Newser...

On Thursday's Hardball on MSNBC, Chris Matthews took a swipe at CEOs who have announced cost-cutting measures now that they know Obamacare will not be repealed.
Matthews’ targets were Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, who has announced that his company will lay off 156 employees; Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter, whose company will reduce workers'...

The New York Post reported on Saturday that The Today Show could be facing cutbacks and layoffs after the show slipped to second place in the ratings behind ABC’s Good Morning America.
The rumors of the cutbacks and layoffs come just after NBC fired 20 staffers on The Tonight Show, and host Jay Leno took a pay cut from his reported salary...

This may be the digital age, but for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, the bold experiment to create a tablet-only newspaper has largely failed, as evidenced by yesterday’s announcement that the The Daily will lay off 29% of its staff in an attempt to stay afloat.
The Daily, which was launched 19 months ago and cost News Corp $30 million to develop...

The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons has obtained an internal memo from Al Jazeera English announcing that they are scaling back their operations in Washington, D.C.:
Dear All,
Today in our Washington DC office we are completing the "next frontier" project to restructure our broadcast model for News contribution from America.
From April 15th, we will no longer...

CNN laid of dozens of employees yesterday in its two documentary units as it continues to streamline operations, according to TVNewser.
The network said in a statement that it will continue to produce in-house documentaries, but that outside production companies will handle much of its long-form journalism.
“We are transitioning to an acquisition...

After a three-year analysis of the company’s work processes CNN began to issue layoff notices yesterday to staffers in Atlanta, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Miami. The network is eliminating about 50 positions, from photographers to news editors to those employed at the CNN Library in New York, which is closing and being consolidated...

The New York Times may have returned to profitability but the lingering economic slump continues to take a toll on the company, as it announced a plan to eliminate up to 20 newsroom positions and to reduce costs in the business units of the paper.
Executive editor Jill Abramson said in a staff memo, as reported by the Times' Brian Stelter, that...